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Nemotron-Cascade 2: Post-Training LLMs with Cascade RL and Multi-Domain On-Policy Distillation

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Ax Yogesh Agrawal (University of Central Florida), Aniruddha Dutta (University of Central Florida), Md Mahadi Hasan (University of Central Florida), Santu Karmaker (University of Central Florida), Aritra Dutta (University of Central Florida) 3/20/2026

FinTradeBench: A Financial Reasoning Benchmark for LLMs

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Ax Huaide Jiang, Yash Chaudhary, Yuping Wang, Zehao Wang, Raghav Sharma, Manan Mehta, Yang Zhou, Lichao Sun, Zhiwen Fan, Zhengzhong Tu, Jiachen Li 3/20/2026

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Ax Reva Schwartz, Carina Westling, Morgan Briggs, Marzieh Fadaee, Isar Nejadgholi, Matthew Holmes, Fariza Rashid, Maya Carlyle, Afaf Ta\"ik, Kyra Wilson, Peter Douglas, Theodora Skeadas, Gabriella Waters, Rumman Chowdhury, Thiago Lacerda 3/20/2026

CIRCLE: A Framework for Evaluating AI from a Real-World Lens

CIRCLE lifecycle framework bridging gap between AI model metrics and real-world deployment outcomes through six-stage evaluation.

Ax Yulin Li, Tengyao Tu, Li Ding, Junjie Wang, Huiling Zhen, Yixin Chen, Yong Li, Zhuotao Tian 3/20/2026

Efficient Reasoning with Balanced Thinking

Method to reduce overthinking and underthinking in Large Reasoning Models through balanced token allocation for efficient inference.

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Study of nonstandard errors in AI coding agents deploying 150 Claude agents on market analysis tasks, showing agent-to-agent variation in analytical choices.